Though we already observe certain conventional rituals such as weddings, birthdays, funerals, and holidays, many people feel an emptiness around these occasions because of how tied to consumerism and religion they have become.

We are Citizens by nature. Over the last eight decades, however, we have become increasingly trapped in the Consumer Story. Before that, we spent centuries, even millennia, imprisoned in the Subject Story. These stories have functioned as a kind of source code, shaping our beliefs and indeed our morality, not only guiding our behaviour but even

Even among people who work within the ‘creative industries’, their imagination seems increasingly harnessed to create demand for things nobody really needs, whose production is increasingly pushing our human and ecological systems to the brink of collapse – almost as if imagination has been coopted in the service of our own extinction.